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So You Think Youve Been Gaslit - The New Yorker (No paywall) When Leah started dating her first serious boyfriend, as a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Ohio State, she had very little sense that sex was supposed to feel good. (Leah is not her real name.) In the small town in central Ohio where she grew up, sex ed was basically like the version she remembered from the movie "Mean Girls": "Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die."
With her college boyfriend, the sex was rough from the beginning. There was lots of choking and hitting; he would toss her around the bed "like a rag doll," she told me, and then assure her, "This is how everyone has sex." Because Leah had absorbed an understanding of sex in which the woman was supposed to be largely passive, she told herself that her role was to be "strong enough" to endure everything that felt painful and scary. When she was with other people, she found herself explaining away bruises and other marks on her body as the results of accidents. Once, she said to her boyfriend, "I guess you like it rough," and he said, "No, all women like it like this." And she thought, "O.K., then I guess I don't know shit about myself."
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